WebSocket Builder

Overview

Builds production-ready WebSocket servers for real-time features — chat, live dashboards, collaborative editing, notifications. Handles the hard parts: authentication during handshake, room/channel management, connection lifecycle, automatic reconnection, message ordering, and horizontal scaling via Redis pub/sub.

Instructions

1. Server Setup

When setting up a WebSocket server:

• Attach to existing HTTP server (share the port)
• Use a mature library: ws for Node.js, websockets for Python, gorilla/websocket for Go
• Implement ping/pong heartbeats (30s interval, 90s timeout)
• Set max message size to prevent abuse (default: 64KB)
• Add connection limits per user (default: 5 concurrent connections)

2. Authentication